news contributor and then analyst for national public radio, juan williams, a man paid to express his opinions, talking about his inner anxiety when encountering certain muslims dressed in a certain manner on airplanes. well, that short sound bite was part of a larger discussion in which mr. williams was trying to convince bill o'reilly that not all people of one belief should be blamed for the actions of an extremist of that same religion. that episode of the o'reilly factor aired on monday. on wednesday, npr fired juan williams for his comments and thursday, this is how some in the media reacted. >> npr, it's an at that disgrateful, npr needs to hire juan williams back and he think most rational americans agree with that. >> juan williams was honest talking part of the problem i do see muslim in a garb and i do get nervous, it's not rational because it's a very small number and he's bringing the problem to the surface and honest with human behavior, loses his job. >> i think they were very wrong. >> i don't think he should have been fired because in fact, as you pointed out, lots of

proportions, npr fires news analyst juan williams for speaking his mind about muslims. >> they are now engaging in a personal attack. trying to introduce the idea that maybe i'm an unstable person. >> as outrage is it time cut funding for the liberal media outlet? >> how ridiculous are you? you embarrass this race. >> just over a week until the midterm elections. with only a short time left, will the attack ads, mudslinging and media cheerleading get louder? >> minnesota vikings' quarterback gets tackled by accusations of a sex scandal. >> bristol palin getting attention and making fans. but not among liberals in the media. >> new york time maureen dowd takes on the girls of the gop. >> greg gutfeld weighness. >> on our panel this week, judy miller. cal thomas. jim pitcherton and "new york post" columnist kirsten powers. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. >> look bill, i'm not a bigot you know the kind of books i've written about the civil rights moment in this country. when i get on a plane if i see people in muslim garb and i think they are identifying themselves first an

much the monumental mistake of firing juan williams from npr. the backlash continues. >> jon: joining us on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor, judy miller. and conservative company s.e. cupp. jim pinkerton fellow new american foundation and news day columnist elliss henican. >> jon: i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. >> you know, you're coming from a place, you ran on very high rhetoric. hope and change, and the democrats this year seem to be red wing on, please, baby one more chance. now-- (laughter) >> how did we go in two years fr from... we are the people we have been looking to you're not going to give then the keys are you? >> when you've got 9.6% unemployment. >> right. >> when folks are seeing their homes underwater, when the economy is growing, but is still not growing as fast as it needs to to make up for 8 million jobs lost. >> yeah. >> folks are going to be frustrated and that's going to reflect itself in the political environment. >> the first sitting president to appear on the daily show on comedy central. you heard that, comedy central. pr

correspondent for public radio, juan williams. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now >> . >> jamie: i think many times i could have did things slightly differently. i will say i watch a lot of cable tv and you don't have to watch long to get frustrated by some of what's said. and i think that's what that answer is for that. >> jon: press secretary robert gibbs this week admitting he's frustrated by criticism from what he calls the professional left. his comments raising questions about his future at the white house. the attacks on gibbs follow his remarks in the hill newspaper in which he says liberals who have compared barack obama to george bush are in need of drug testing. gibbs went on to say they will be satisfied when we have canadian health care and we've eliminated the pentagon. that's not reality. and they wouldn't be satisfied if dennis kucinich was president. well, the liberal media reacted. this from msnbc's keith olbermann. >> and now a special comment from what i suppose is also part of the professional left. it's hard to say for sure mr. gibbs' reference watching too mu

american foundation and national public radio news analyst juan williams, i'm gretchen carlson, fox news watch is on right now >> when we talk about fighting for our country, let's clear the air right now on what it is we're talking about. we're not inciting violence. don't get sucked into the mainstream media's lies about conservative americans standing up for freedom as inciting violence. violence isn't the answer. it's a bunch of bunk what the media is trying to feed you. sarah palin telling the media to get it right. about the meaning of her call to arms. something nbc ignored when they aired a report by correspondent george lewis, tying ms. palin's energized appearances apriled at congressional members who voted in favor of the health care bill. she gave matt lauer a lesson and fair and balanced. i love george lewis i think he does a great job. how do you go from sarah palin giving a speech to saying did she rile up the people too much and then talk about death threats? i think that kind of reporting really is what drives people crazy about the dinosaur media. >> well, there have be

cystsy room and caved on the things in fear of glenn beck who never touched the story. >> juan williams wrote on the fox news site this week, he said, and you can't really make this stuff up, how is it possible that the first black president of the united states under pressure for alleged reverse discrimination under the justice department fires a black agriculture department official for telling a story of racial redemption? does juan have it right? >> first of all, the woman in question says she doesn't blame president obama for this. she got her-- it was her boss, the agriculture secretary, who supposedly asked her to resign. we don't know how far up this goes. i mean, i can't believe that the white house didn't order this. but what about andrew brightbart, what about the person who aired the video without asking who, how, where, when, what? about what the context? and why is his face not everywhere as responsible for this. >> and said earlier, the message was different. it wasn't just different, it was the opposite. the future of racism and it was this beautiful story of re

phenomenon and why people are i a way from the broadcasters. juan williams expresses an opinion, they fire him and he was on here. he was on tuesday night. who are you going to watch. no conservative, but he has interesting opinions. >> jon: talking about opinions, take a look at the clip of diane sawyer interviewing nancy pelosi soon to be the former speaker of the house. >> the president used the word shellacking in the press conference, what's the first word that comes to your minds. >> i guess that probably is a good word, but i would say a very disappointing result not being as colorful as he is in that description, but it was, it was a tough loss. >> jon: is seems like kind of a kid gloves interview if you watched the whole thing, judy. >> shellacking is the new something. >> jon: george bush's word. >> absolutely. and diane sawyer was too busy blogging and net twittering to ask nancy the stuff questions whether or not she's going to run. >> jon: what should she be asked. >> are you partially responsible for this defeat, ms. pelosi, how about that. >> at the press conference on wedne

to distinguish between real racists or tea parties or real bigots and juan williams or rick sanchez is an insult. >> yeah, it got political and looks fancy in his suit like he actually is a real news person. >> what was a help, popular, number two is oprah sent people there by buses. >> and the president was encouraging people to go. >> and the president, you're right, guys. and the huffington post sent buses of people from new york. >> i think they bused down 10,000 people to be it there. >> that's an incredible boost. look, they're comedians and had to be funny and it was about restoring sanity and against fear, you know, pushing back into big political rallies of the past year or so and here is a give and take between stewart and colbert. >> you're jusing boogiemen. >> boogiemen where. >> no, stephen there are no boogiemen. >> fdr once said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. >> and just 12 years later, he was dead. >> i prefer president nixon who said, people react to fear not love. they don't teach that in sunday school, but it's true. >> all right, somebody who was

news contributor juan williams. cal thomas. jim pinkerton. and ellis hennigan. i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. >> i think people are going to have a choice to make in the fall. but, i think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause republicans to gain control, no doubt about that. >> white house press secretary robert gibbs admitting democrats could lose their house majority come never -- come november his candor did not sit well with nancy pelosi. >> i think his comment was unfortunate not to take us from the path that we are on for job creation and the excellent job that our chairman van hollen is doing. we have a solid organization on mobilization, on message on the management of the these campaigns we fully intend to win. >> that lead to this from robert gibbs. >> of course, the opinion of the speaker of the house matters to me, it matters to democrats in washington and throughout this country. let's be clear that the work that the house and the speaker have done over the past 18 months in making tough choices in making tough votes and in passi